₦airaland Forum

all4naija: We are saying the memoir is fictitious and is meant to divide the people while he fails to explain to people his warlord role in recruiting child soldiers. Whatever, stop exonerating your old troublemaker writer of his error here.

shymexx: Achebe-ism = narcissism and propagandism...

Ozodi Thomas Osuji is an inspiration and a critical thinker, time to be the Yoruba equivalent of this great man...

nku5: How on earth am I supposed to pick anything from Osuji when he rambles endlessly wiithout "connecting any dots". For example see the following excerpt where he tries to fault Achebe's assertion that nigeria's 1st Republic was corrupt -

Achebe talked about the events that led to the war as if Igbo’s were always right and other Nigerians always wrong. For example, corruption is endemic in Nigeria . Achebe gave the impression that this disease of Nigerians did not affect his Igbos. All we need to do if we are interested in actual history is examine the behavior of actual Igbos to see if they, too, were corrupt.

Igbos did not have chiefs and kings; Igbos were a stateless people. Frederick Lugard, the Briton who clubbed Nigerian tribes together in 1914, decided to appoint what he called warrant chiefs in those parts of Nigeria that did not have chiefs. He wanted to rule the country through what he called indirect rule: ruling the people through their chiefs and that way save on administrative cost of running such a huge country, a country about four times the size of England.

Lugard appointed warrant chiefs in Alaigbo. In each Igbo town he appointed a chief and thereafter established what he called Native Authorities where the various chiefs in a district came together to solve their mutual problems. The chiefs acted as courts adjudicating on the people’s customary issues. (Lugard appointed white district officers who had the authority to over rule what the African chiefs did.)

Igbo warrant chiefs were probably the most corrupt set of human beings that have walked this earth! They gave themselves access to many wives, including Being Intimate with the wives of men who brought their issues to their courts. They did nothing for the people without taking bribes from them.

The point here is that right from the beginning of the British era in Nigeria , Igbos showed that they were as corrupt as other Nigerians. When Igbos were brought into the Nigerian civil services, like other Nigerians they personalized their offices and took bribes before they hired people or promoted them or provided any service to the public.

One is not saying that Igbos were particularly egregious in this bribery taking matter; one is just saying that Igbos were as culprit as other Nigerians in the issue"


If YOU will be objective you will notice that he tried to infer that igbos were corrupt like everybody else. While not trying to say igbos are all saints, Osuji hopped like a drunk bull frog from history about warrant chiefs in 1914 to buttress an unconnected point. He writes with flair and confidence in ways that thrill and tickle his like minds and no one else. People I have noticed DON'T READ for themselves but jump on the bandwagon. Bigotry it seems diminishes intelligence and kills even the minimal required attention span

all4naija: As regard the memoir which people are taking on the ground of reality!

all4naija: Don't worry! I will remain a critic of Prof Achebe's works. However, he's a fictitious writer, he's always been!

stiyke: @OP and what is your contribution to the decay or betterment of Nigeria. Is your only contribution spreading frustration and fear?? Take a lesson from nigerians trying to be positive. go to www.trendycoal.com or some other positive sites and try to see the glass as half full instead of half empty. My point is that if we all try our best to contribute positively to Nigeria even at least by our attitude, we will be better off.

obadiah777: SATAN IS THE KING OF THIS WORLD. YOU CANT WIN HIM IN HIS OWN GAME OF VIOLENCE. IF YOU WOULD RATHER CHASE YOUR OWN TAIL THEN CONTINUE DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING WITHOUT DIALOGUING.

obadiah777: THIS MAN HAS BEEN ABROAD FOR TOO LONG. THATS EXACTLY HOW THE WHITE MAN SPEAKS AND IT IS BORNE OUT OF PRIDE. ' WE DO NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS' THATS THE MOST PRIDEFUL AND THE MOST ARROGANT CAUCASIAN TYPE STATEMENT I EVER HEARD. SCRIPTURE SAYS YOU HAVE TO BE AS CUNNING AS A SERPENT. WHATS THE BEST WAY TO DEAL WITH SATAN ?? YOU HAVE TO DIALOGUE WITH THEM AND TRY TO SEE WHERE THEIR MIND IS AT.

DanIlon: Obamacare! Obamacare!! Obamcare!!!, thank u people of American in way of Anti war, popular of america are Pro peace.republican is only majority war,romney is likely to make american wicked picture.hell for mitt romney ride jaki to boston.

Tippy Top: The election has nothing to do with Nigeria true, but American elections are always entertainning because of the important role America plays in world affairs.

Gozzzy: Ol' boy na naija we dey.... No be america..

obalolaunited: Chei naija I hail thee coffee wey I dey drink wan comot for my nose

franchizy: Why are the igbos raising false Alarm. Islam is a religion of peace, and the Boko Haram sects ve sook for dialogue to stop d killing of innocent people. Now the wicked igbos ve come up with a rumour to make the ceasefire not to happen cos they know dat there sons are the Boko Haram who claim to be muslims. Allah will punish dis igbos one by one.

GotNoBrainsYo: Every Life is valuable. If one Yoruba child or One NUpe child was killed senselessly,
using these barbaric methods, I"ll stand up for him too.
I don't understand humans who feel so un-concerned about life just because the death is suffered by someone of a different ethnicity.
Are we all human or are we not? This nonchalant attitude towards human life is appalling.

franchizy: Why are the igbos raising false Alarm. Islam is a religion of peace, and the Boko Haram sects ve sook for dialogue to stop d killing of innocent people. Now the wicked igbos ve come up with a rumour to make the ceasefire not to happen cos they know dat there sons are the Boko Haram who claim to be muslims. Allah will punish dis igbos one by one.

obalolaunited: Chei naija I hail thee coffee wey I dey drink wan comot for my nose

chosen04: Members of Jama’atul Ahlis Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad also known as Boko Haram have said they are now willing to seize fire and stop all atrocities being perpetrated by their group and work against other existing groups if the State and Federal Government will truly heed to their demands.

The acclaimed spokesman of the group, Abu Mohammed Ibn Abdulazeez, who doubles as the second-in-command (Amir) to their leader Imam Abubakar Shekau revealed this in a tele-conference with journalists in Maiduguri on Thursday stating that if the state and the federal government want the group to seize fire completely, then former Borno state governo,r Ali Modu Sheriff must be arrested and prosecuted according to the law of the land.

He also said that apart from the arrest of Senator Ali Sheriff, government should compensate the group and rebuild their places of worship which were destroyed during 2009 uprising.

Abu Abdulazeez further stressed that, all their members who were arrested and are under the custody of security agencies must be released with immediate effect, and all their wives who were displaced following the crises as well as their children must be rehabilitated into the society to create room for a fruitful dialogue with the Federal Government.

He pointed out that for a dialogue to take place, it must be through the following elders namely: Dr. Shettima Ali Monguno, Former Head of State General Muhammadu Buhari, former Yobe State Governor, Bukar Abba Ibrahim, Ambassador Gaji Galtimari and Barr Aisha Alkali Wakil and her husband, Barr, Alkali Wakil, insisting that the dialogue must not take place in Nigeria but Saudi Arabia, as according to him, the government of Nigeria is not sincere for dialogue due to its betrayal in the past.

Abu Abdulazeez also said that the group has mandated five members who are to mediate on their behalf; they include himself (Abu Mohammed Abdulazeez), Abu Abbas, Sheikh Ibrahim Yusuf, Sheikh Sani Kontogora and Mamman Nur

While speaking on the series of killings and unwantom destruction of property that took over Maiduguri recently, Abu Abdulazeez disassociated the group from such act, pointing out that such attacks were politically motivated by those seeking for power in the Borno Emirate council, government or otherwise, but not in line with the ideology of the sect who are fighting for the cause of Allah.

He also said that,the burning of old and newly constructed primary schools witnessed across the state were not masterminded by the sect, insisting that the burning of such places were carried out by aggrieved politicians who were denied contracts from the state government.

http://dailypost.com.ng/2012/11/01/we-will-seize-fire-government-arrests-sheriff-compensate-us-boko-haram/

SailorXY: sure! but then i don't remember Webb playing when u got spanked 8-2, neither was he there when Chelsea got spanked 3-1, and he was also missing in action when United beat Chelsea both home and away in UCL 2010